Reliable Sources provide information you can trust. You have access to billions of pieces of information both good and bad, so you need to learn how to select the best information.
pay attention to: credibility: quality and capacity of belief accuracy: free from mistakes reliability: giving the same information as other sources date: time at wich the information is published
.com--commercial (usually selling something; may be biased)
.edu--school;university;educational
.gov--U.S. government site
.org--organization/non-profit (accurate, but may be biased)
Databases (Culture Grams, EB Online) vs. Search Engines (Google, Bing...)
purchased
free, accessible to anyone
content is reviewed & recommended
no standard is used if content is reviewed
information is organized
information is not organized
information is stable & reliable
information is not stable; location & content continually change
Plagiarism is stealing the words or ideas of another and pass them off as your own. It is illegal and unethical. When you copy something, you are plaiarising. There can be serious consequences for plaigarising.
How to avoid plagiarism....Create a Bibliography.ppt (a.k.a. Works Cited) page that lists all of the sources you took information from. It gives credit to the author and the sources.
Remember: The information is there for you to use. You just have to use it responsibly by giving the author credit. Primary Sources are original, first-hand accounts. They are the first evidence of something happening, being thought, or said. Created at the time of the account.
Secondary Sources are second-hand, published accounts that are created after primary sources (and may include bias).
You Can't Just Google It!Reliable Sources provide information you can trust. You have access to billions of pieces of information both good and bad, so you need to learn how to select the best information.
pay attention to:
credibility: quality and capacity of belief
accuracy: free from mistakes
reliability: giving the same information as other sources
date: time at wich the information is published
.com--commercial (usually selling something; may be biased)
.edu--school;university;educational
.gov--U.S. government site
.org--organization/non-profit (accurate, but may be biased)
Databases (Culture Grams, EB Online) vs. Search Engines (Google, Bing...)
Plagiarism is stealing the words or ideas of another and pass them off as your own. It is illegal and unethical. When you copy something, you are plaiarising. There can be serious consequences for plaigarising.
How to avoid plagiarism....Create a Bibliography.ppt (a.k.a. Works Cited) page that lists all of the sources you took information from. It gives credit to the author and the sources.
Remember: The information is there for you to use. You just have to use it responsibly by giving the author credit.
Primary Sources are original, first-hand accounts. They are the first evidence of something happening, being thought, or said. Created at the time of the account.
Secondary Sources are second-hand, published accounts that are created after primary sources (and may include bias).
letters
photographs
art
maps
video/film
sound recordings
interviews
newspapers/articles
magazines/articles
biographies
published stories
movies of historical events
art
music recordings